Duck egg question

[Lrosell31]

How long do I need to wait to see if my duck egg is fertile. Is candling the best way to check?

 

[Pyxis]

If you want to hatch it, candling is the only way By around five days of incubation you'd see life.

If you're just wanting to confirm fertility but don't want to hatch eggs, you can crack them open and look on the yolk to see if it has a blastodsic or a blastoderm. A blastodisc is just a small white dot and means the egg isn't fertile. A blastoderm looks like a little white bulls-eye and means the egg was fertile.

 

[Chickens 4Ever]

Am I wrong or right?? I thought duck eggs were always fertile.

 

[CayugaJana]

Am I wrong or right?? I thought duck eggs were always fertile.

If you have a male duck to deposit the sperm, a females eggs will be fertile. But if you don’t have a male, no they won’t be fertile. It also depends on the male. If he’s just learning, they may not all be fertile. Mine fell off the ladies and couldn’t stay balanced on them to save his life. So I just new the eggs weren’t fertile, but they were. Lol

 

[Chickens 4Ever]

If you have a male duck to deposit the sperm, a females eggs will be fertile. But if you don’t have a male, no they won’t be fertile. It also depends on the male. If he’s just learning, they may not all be fertile. Mine fell off the ladies and couldn’t stay balanced on them to save his life. So I just new the eggs weren’t fertile, but they were. Lol

Ok. Because my girl sat on eggs last year and all the chicks were female, so yes. All my eggs are fertile then, but I’m not allowed to hatch anymore ducks

 

[CayugaJana]

Ok. Because my girl sat on eggs last year and all the chicks were female, so yes. All my eggs are fertile then, but I’m not allowed to hatch anymore ducks

All of them that hatched were females??? I’d be using that drake over and over and selling those babies!

 

[Chickens 4Ever]

All of them that hatched were females??? I’d be using that drake over and over and selling those babies!

Hah! It was a mix of pekin and Runner, both of my girls hatched females, so I’m lucky I got to keep em. Mom said “you can keep the females but no males”

 

[CayugaJana]

Hah! It was a mix of pekin and Runner, both of my girls hatched females, so I’m lucky I got to keep em. Mom said “you can keep the females but no males”

More than one drake?

That’s so funny!

 

[Pyxis]

All of them that hatched were females??? I’d be using that drake over and over and selling those babies!

It's actually the females that determine the gender of the offspring in birds, so it's actually the girls that you'd wanna keep in that scenario

 

[CayugaJana]

It's actually the females that determine the gender of the offspring in birds, so it's actually the girls that you'd wanna keep in that scenario

Amazing! I just assumed most species were the same. Learn something new everyday